"At its peak, the Mughal Empire stretched from Kabul in the northwest and covered most of the South Asian subcontinent. Descendants of Timur (Tamerlane), the Mughal emperors ruled over the land from ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...

In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...

The rise, consolidation, and fall of the British Raj is a fascinating story that inevitably raises passions throughout the Indian subcontinent and in Britain itself. What was the nature of the Raj?